Example sentences of "[verb] be so [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in Mexico , California and New York , this film finds Roeg in supreme command of the powerful and allusive style of film making , which has been so influential on other film makers . |
| 2 | And it is their Derrida , the nihilist or joker , who has been so influential in literature departments . |
| 3 | With cool logic but passionate polemic , Segal takes on the ( primarily North American ) body of feminist work which has been so influential in the peace , ecology , and anti-pornography campaigns of the last two decades . |
| 4 | English China Clays has been so successful at reclaiming the visitors notice only the unreclaimed sites |
| 5 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 6 | The reason that the Macintosh , hardly a favourite among the business community , has been so successful in its guise as a publishing system is due to the fact that it was the first to provide a common user interface for all its software . |
| 7 | Margaret Myers said : ‘ I am delighted that the Women in Enterprise Programme has been so successful in Londonderry , and as training providers we would hope to continue to provide award winning training from NISBI in Londonderry and throughout the province . ’ |
| 8 | CCG was awarded the £1 million contract for North Yorkshire schools last January , and since then we have implemented the healthy eating policy that has been so successful in other school contracts . |
| 9 | Atkinson said : ‘ It 's a blow to lose someone like Shaun , who has been so impressive for us . ’ |
| 10 | Sorrels in general were used by the Greeks and Romans for medicinal purposes , and had some medicinal as well as culinary application in mediaeval Britain , but the English sorrel then used ( R. acetosa ) was replaced for culinary purposes by the French version and has been so used until the preset day . |
| 11 | Nor will it do to argue that state socialism is a perversion or corruption of some pure source , for the source has been so consistent in what it has given rise to , and so wrong in its predictions , that the suspicion of some intrinsic connection between theory and practice can not be evaded . |
| 12 | A source tells us that one of the reasons SunSoft Inc has been so discreet about Spring and Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) object-oriented stuff , is that it does n't want Microsoft Corp to know too much . |
| 13 | It is , perhaps , one of the reasons why the education service has been so resistant to the integration demanded by corporate management ( Regan 1979:206 — 8 ) . |
| 14 | You can not leave Heather , despite what you feel for me , because she has been so good to you . |
| 15 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 16 | Woosnam has been thinking of changing to a ‘ cack-handed ’ grip on the greens left hand below right because his putting has been so poor in recent weeks . |
| 17 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 18 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 19 | We just want to share with you how God has been so faithful to us in many ways . |
| 20 | Michael Rayer has given the selectors so little excuse to drop him , has been so sound in all aspects of play , that he has consigned possibly the most dangerous prong of the Welsh attack to the replacements ' bench . |
| 21 | Human rights activists and journalists can not fathom why the Paris government has been so lukewarm to the Bourequats . |
| 22 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 23 | And another Quote of the Week ( and how long we have had to wait for the national press to notice what has been so obvious for so long ) : ‘ With Waterstones backed by W H Smith , and Pentos ’ gearing rising , there can be little doubt who has the deeper pockets to fight a protracted battle . |
| 24 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 25 | I am most happy to live in the room here , this lady has been so kind in accommodating me . |
| 26 | ‘ Everyone has been so kind in the company . |
| 27 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 28 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 29 | Jenna has been so sweet to me this week . |
| 30 | ‘ She is unable to give an interview to someone who has been so rude to her , ’ he told Groom curtly , but agreed to furnish her himself with the few facts she needed . |